However, she emphasized in her joint interview with Steph that her reasoning was due to her own insecurities about diving into a relationship.
“People, for some reason, think that in the past I’ve said that he wasn’t my type, but what I was saying was, I didn’t think I was his type,” she explained to cohosts Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson. “‘Cause this was Mr. Cool and so, I kind of sold myself short in thinking that there’s no way. He must just like me as a friend.”
Although she and Steph—who share kids Riley, 13, Ryan, 10, Canon, 7, and 22-month-old Caius—were friends in high school, it wasn’t until four years later that their romance would blossom. But it wasn’t any less of a surprise.
